Intellij IdeaVim change keys

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gdoubleod picture gdoubleod · Apr 14, 2012 · Viewed 29.9k times · Source

I would really like to be able to use IdeaVIM but I am unable to figure out where I can set my custom vim key mappings. For example instead of using Esc I would like to use Ctrl-C and instead of using hjkl I like to use wasd.

I have all these already set in my .vimrc but IdeaVIM failed to load them. I can copy them over manually to whatever file is needed but there is no documentation on how to do this.

Answer

jbyler picture jbyler · Apr 29, 2014

As of IdeaVim 0.35 (released 2014-05-15), key mappings in ~/.ideavimrc are supported. You can put source ~/.vimrc in that file if you want to include mappings from ~/.vimrc.

Release announcement

VIM-288

(Note: This question could probably be considered a duplicate of this other StackOverflow question.)

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